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92 Tul. L. Rev. 641 (2017-2018)

handle is hein.journals/tulr92 and id is 681 raw text is: COMMENTS Prognosis Negative: Negligent Credentialing Claims in Louisiana Leigh B. Ackal* I. INTRODUCTION......................................641 II. WHAT Is NEGLIGENT CREDENTIALING? ..................643 III. THE LOUISIANA MEDICAL MALPRACTICE ACT.............645 A. History and Purpose ...............................645 B. Attempts to Add Negligent Credentialing to the LMMA ........................... ......647 IV. LOUISIANA JURISPRUDENCE .......................648 A. The Coleman/Sewell Factors .................648 B. Louisiana Jurisprudence Regarding Negligent Credentialing ............................649 V. NEGLIGENT CREDENTIALING OUTSIDE OF LOUISIANA...............652 A. Negligent Credentialing as a Cause ofAction.............652 B. Negligent Credentialing as Malpractice .............653 VI. BILLEA UDEA U V. OPELOUSAS GENERAL HOSPITAL AUTHORITY .............................................. 655 A. Facts ..................................655 B. Proceedings Below................ ........656 C. Louisiana Supreme Court .........................658 VII. FOLLOWING BILLEAUDEA U .................................... 660 VII. CONCLUSION ................................ .......666 I. INTRODUCTION After she collapsed at home, Veronica and Joseph Billeaudeau rushed their daughter Brandi, a woman with Down syndrome, to the hospital in June of 2010.1 The Billeaudeaus spent hours unsuccessfully pleading with the hospital's emergency department * C 2018 Leigh B. Ackal. J.D. candidate 2018, Tulane University Law School; B.A. 2008, Tulane University; M.E.D. 2011, Smith College; M.Sc. 2012, University College London. I am eternally grateful to the members and staff of the Tulane Law Review for their support, dedication, and diligence, but most of all for making the past two years such a positive and treasured experience. I would also like to thank Professor Vernon Palmer for serving as my advisor for this Comment. 1. Billeaudeau v. Opelousas Gen. Hosp. Auth., 2016-0846, p. 2 (La. 10/19/16); 218 So. 3d 513, 514. 641

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